Here’s what you need:

Ingredients:

Dressing:

½ cup olive oil 

1/3  cup lemon juice

1 shallot, minced

1 Tablespoon Dijon mustard

1 Tablespoon honey (sub with Maple Syrup for Vegan option)

1/2 teaspoon dried Italian spices 

½ teaspoon coarse sea salt

¼ teaspoon white pepper

Salad:
1 head romaine lettuce

1-2 Tablespoons capers

4 small cucumbers

1 bunch radishes

2 Tablespoons hemp seeds

Preparation:

Dressing:

In a small bowl, whisk all ingredients together. OR you can also put all the ingredients into a glass jar with a tight fitting lid. Shake vigorously until ingredients are well incorporated.

Store dressing in fridge for up to two weeks

Salad:
Stack romaine and julienne.

Thinly slice radishes by hand or use a mandoline.

Cut cucumbers into thin rounds or use a vegetable peeler or mandoline for long strips.

Mix romaine, cucumbers, radish and capers in a large bowl.

Sprinkle hemp seeds on top, drizzle with dressing and mix well.

This is a super quick and easy salad to make whenever you feel like you need something light, fresh and delicious! If you make this recipe and want to share with us, tag us on Instagram @stokesstores and use the hashtag #StokesMoments. 

Enjoying what you are eating doesn’t have to stop! There are a lot of ways to cook great tasting meals that are good for your health and will live up to those New Year’s resolutions you made only a few months ago.

For our Feta and Asparagus Tagliatelle recipe, you have the healthy option of replacing the pasta with zucchini noodles made with our thinkkitchen vegetable slicer. This option puts a healthy twist on this delicious pasta dish and it is easy to do! To swap in the zucchini, all you have to do is slice it into fine ribbons and cook it for 5 minutes with some oil, pepper, and salt in a skillet. And, what’s more, is that it actually takes less time than boiling water and cooking pasta!

However, if you’re looking for a different kind of challenge, try making your own fresh pasta using our Remy Olivier Scarlet pasta machine. Not only does it look impressive to have a beautiful pasta machine on your countertop, but it also makes making fresh pasta much less intimidating than you would imagine!

So, put your mind at ease and give this Feta and Asparagus Tagliatelle recipe a try! There are so many easy healthy eating options available to you!

Ingredients:

• 20 Asparagus, trimmed
• 1/3 cup of olive oil
• ¾ pound of tagliatelle OR sliced zucchini
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, diced
• ½ cup chicken broth
• 1 ½ cup fresh feta cheese, crumbled
• 1 ½ cups of olives, halved
• ¼ cup fresh oregano, chopped
• 1 teaspoon crushed dried thyme
• ½ cup parmesan, grated

Preparation:

1. Move an oven rack to the highest position and set the oven to broil.
2. Place the asparagus on a sheet pan. Drizzle with oil. Season with salt and pepper. Broil for about 5 minutes until tender but still firm. Remove from the oven and cut the asparagus, at 45-degree angles using a chef knife. Set aside.
3. Cook tagliatelle in salted boiling water until al dente. Drain.
   OR
   Use your thinkkitchen vegetable slicer and place your zucchini. Turn the handle while pushing knob downwards to cut it into thin slices. Next, heat olive oil in a cast iron skillet over medium heat; cook and stir zucchini in the hot oil for 1 minute. Add ¼ cup of water and cook for about 5 minutes until zucchini is softened. Drain.
4. In your frypan, soften the onion and garlic for 4 to 5 minutes in oil. Do not let brown.
5. Add the feta, olives, oregano and chicken broth into the frypan. Stir in the pasta, or zucchini noodles, and asparagus. Continue to stir until warm throughout. Season with thyme, salt & pepper to taste.
6. Serve in our Leah Pasta Bowls, sprinkle with freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and enjoy!

Here to give you new ideas for eating clean and healthy all year round,

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but sometimes it can be hard to plan a healthy one without your sweet-tooth leading you astray. All those sugary cereal options out there, that barely possess any nutritional value, make it difficult to get that boost required after fasting all night and that sought-after energy to start off your day. Today, we’re serving up a fun solution to this common problem! And what’s more is that it’ll make your every day breakfast just as trendy as everything else you do. All the rage with foodies all over the internet, a smoothie bowl is way better than cornflakes and even better than a plain old smoothie (you’ll feel full by the time you’re done and you won’t down it in less than 10 seconds). They come topped with all sorts of colourful fruit and crunchy extras like granola or cereal, which just aren’t the same in a regular smoothie, and that create a nice texture for your palate. But a smoothie bowl is not just a nutritional boost in the morning; it also has the potential to be a work of art! So if you’re into making your food social media worthy, this smoothie bowl could be a fun, new, beautiful challenge to try!

This week, Sarah, from Sarah’s Dolce Vita, is back to show us how to make this divinely healthy meal! You might have already seen some of the breakfast creations on her blog, ranging from healthy muffins, chia pudding and muesli to tiramisu pancakes and protein-loaded oatmeal recipes. Sarah does it all and she’s an expert smoothie bowl maker, too! Our smoothie bowl training is in capable hands and today you have the opportunity to learn how to make her Tropical Green Smoothie Bowl. Loaded with banana, spinach, chia seeds, pineapple, tahini, almond butter, oats and almond milk, this recipe has all the key elements to building a balanced smoothie bowl. A healthy mix of greens, fruits, protein, healthy fats, super foods, ice and liquids all in one! Nutrition and texture are important elements of a good smoothie bowl, so you have to get your ratios right. However, you can also get inspired by the ingredients you have on hand! If you feel like mangoes will go better than bananas or if you have heaps of granola hanging around, why not throw them in? It wouldn’t hurt to add a touch of your imagination to the recipe this week. In fact, we encourage it!

For this recipe, blending is the most important step, so you have to make sure you have the right tool for the job! Sarah mixes together her ingredients with the handy thinkkitchen Pro-Stick Hand Blender. With two speeds and stainless steel blades that can crush ice, this convenient and easy-to-grip small kitchen appliance will keep your counter top blender tucked away in a far-off cabinet for good. Plus, it’s way easier to clean than a big bulky blender. All you need to do is place it under a tap and rinse it off!

Now it’s your turn to have some fun. Get creative and start building yourself a better way to breakfast!

Here to inspire you to be creative with your food,

@thenutritiousprincess

Sarah is an Italian-Canadian who is passionate about food! In fact, she’s pretty sure either tomato sauce or melted dark chocolate runs through her veins. She loves to spend hours experimenting in the kitchen, watching Food Network or let’s face it, hitting the mall. She strives to have a career she loves, one she’ll never want a break from. This is where her love for teaching and passion for cooking merge into one – hello Food Network cooking show?  She has a major sweet tooth and will walk miles for dessert.